Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-28
THROUGH THE STATE.
HAPPENINGS HERE ANDTHBRB IN THE IN
TERROR COUNTIES.
The News Of the Past Six Days as We Clean l
from the Columns of the Weekly Press and
Adapt It 10 the Registers Readers.

The electric light has been put Ill opera
tion at Charleston.
There are at present eight military
companies in the State.
There is to be a reunion of Ex-Confeder-
ates at Anderson Wednesday, the 18th.
A premature blast fatally wounded an
unknown man at Hendricks, Tucker coun-
ty, a few days ago.
The Charleston City Council has resolv-
ed to appropriate a fund to be used in
booming the town.
Horse thieves are at work in Monroe
county. J. J. Black is the latest victim
of the lawbreakers.
They are now claiming to have found
silver ore in Monroe county. The find is
located near Rock Camp.
There was a tournament at Peterstown,
Monroe county, on the 18th. Leila Per
kinson, of Dauyiile, Va, was crowned
Queen.
At the recent session Of the Summers
County Circuit Court s.. II. Johnson was
convicted of rape and sentenced TO the pen
itentiary for fourteen years.
The engineers of the w. Va. C. q p. K.
K. have been ordered to make a prelim-
mary survey from the mouth OF Little
Black Fork to the Gauley river.
Ed. r. Cole, who is nov in Jail at Graf
ton on the charge of forging B. Il o.. passes,
made a desperate attempt TO escape, a few
days z but was discovered in time.
The prisoners at Phillippi attempted to
break Jail. They improvised a saw out OF
an old case-knife aud succeeded in cutting
through three bars before they were dis
covered.
The new military company recently
organized at Chenille met for drill on last
Saturday, and were taken through a course
of tactics by Capt. ID. L. O'Brien. Thirty
six were present.
The management OF the Kingwood Rail
way intend to purchase several acres OF
land near TOWNSVILLE for the purpose OF
making a park. Excursion trains will
then be run during the summer season.
There are some few people in this town
that have no more respect for the law of
our land than the ID has for holy water.
We propose tn show some Of them up II
they don't look a little out-7UckeT Demo-
crdt.
John Mastin, who lives in Nicholas,
owns = prairie dog, which during the dry
weather, dug in the ground until he came
to water. The gentleman lives on a
mountain and it is supposed the dog went
down a hundred feet or more.
Isaac K. Burns, OF Kanawha district,
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well last Thursday, fell about eighteen
feet, killing him instantly. He had start
ed out of the we'll and when within a few
feet of the top lost his hold and fell. His
neck was broken.
While at work in a granary Wednesday,
Austin COney, n sou Of George COncy, who
resides on the Kanawha river, near ST.
Alberns, was seriously injured by a crib
falling Oh him. One Of his shoulders was
mashed and bruised all over the whole
body.
Henry Anderson, of Newburg, was ar
rested tor stealing Il horse, by Special
Constable b. F. Miller, OF Tucker county,
last week, aud lodged in Jail at st. George.
The Oflense WAS committed in P~OCahOntas
county, aud as the Sheriff of Tucker was
en- route with his prisoner to POcahOntas
Anderson succeeded in making his escape.
May Clark, a yOung unmarried woman
living on Sixth street, gave birth to a child
Wednesday night. She told n woman liv-
ing near that it was alive when born, and
that her mother took IL ont and buried it..
The case has every indication of infanti-
eide, and while she does not say the child
was killed OT buried alive, she will not
say it was not. -Cidrksburg Telegram.
At Anstead, a small village in Fayette
county. this State, is the grave of the
mother OF Stonewall Jackson. A stone
marks her grave with the following in
scription: Julia Beckwith Neale was
born Feb. %, 1898, in LOudnn County,
Virginia; married first, Jonathan jackson;
second, Reake B.. Woodson. Died Septem-
Der, 1881. To the mother of Stonewail
Jackson, by a private OF his brigade"
The Ensign Manufacturing Company at
Huntington have commenced work on a
new car erecting shop, which will be COM
pleted by the first of November, and will
he constructed on the best and most ad-
y%antageOus plan to get out rapid work,
The building will he q brick structure, COX
200 feet, and will have five tracks running
through il, and will necessitate the en-
plOyment of 500 additional men when in
operation.
John Woods, u Saginaw City Mich
barber, with others of his family, was sold
rs o slave thirtY-Six years ago, in Virginia.
Each was bought bya seperate person, and
they were taken to bondage in different di-
r~sCtiOns. Since that time John has heard
nothing of his mother until recently, when
he learned, in an indirect manner, that
she was still living at Hinton, this State.
He intends coming this way to hunt the
old lady up.
At Ronceverte, G%reenbrier county, a
colored woman by the name of Louise Ed
ridge, formerly Louise James, of Lewisburg,
was shot through the heart on the night
of the Goth instant, at midnight, while on
her way home from her husbands restau-
rant in that place, and instantly killed.
One John CapertOn, cOlOred, was arrested
and brought before the town authorities,
but in the absence of proof against him
was discharged.
Considerable excitement was created at
Oakland, Md, a few days since, by the
attempt of VIM. Grim, of that place, to
shoot his wife. Mrs. Grim suspected her
husband of inidelity, and followed him to
a place where she supposed the object of
his affection dwelt. Grim drew a pistol
from his pocket and fired upon her, put
ting a bullet through her nat, grazing her
head. Grim is in Jail. He is indicted for
violating the local option law. and was ont
on bail, but his sureties surrendered him
after the shooting afiray.
That fatal disease, bloody hux, has as
sumed a serious aspect IN the n~eighborhood
of Big Laurel, Greenbrier county, and sew
eral persons have fallen victims to its fatal
ravages. There have been six deaths
from hux in a very short time, viz: Little
Nellie Cox, daughter Of c.. L. Cox, six
years old; Mrs. LOuvicy Collins, wife of
Ira Collins, about Is years of age; Jackson
and Mary CollinS phil1ran If Ira roll;rs